Course detail
The Art of Interpreting Film
FaVU-TAIFAcad. year: 2019/2020
1. Neorealism in Italy
2. French New Wave
3. Hollywood classical cinema of the 1950s
4. British social film of the 1960s
5. Hollywood Rennaissance of 1970s
6. 1960s in Czechoslowakia
7. 1970s in Poland
Rather than a survey, this course will provide sapmples of films from the mentioned periods and geographical locations.
We wil also read texts which will help students contextualite the developments of the national cinemas.
Language of instruction
Number of ECTS credits
Mode of study
Guarantor
Offered to foreign students
Learning outcomes of the course unit
By studying theoretical articles about films they will be aware of the variety of interpretaion tools and strategies.
Students will widen their horizons in a discipline which is not customarily taught at a fine art faculty.
The course will cultivate students' critical and analytical abilities.
Students will be trained to understand the essential points of academic texts, but will at the same time learn to coherently voice their opinions and interpretations of a particular film/text in written form.
During the semester, students will write several short tests checking their reading progress.
Prerequisites
Co-requisites
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes
Course curriculum
2. Hitchcock and Hollywood
3. French New Wave and Godard - new film language, the auter, film as a political pamphlet
4. French New Wave - Agnes Varda
5. Czechoslovak New Wave and Chytilová - film as a metaphor
5. Antonioni and the aesthetics of estrangement
7. Ingmar Bergman - Persona
8. American experimental film, body politics: Maya Deren, Kenneth Anger, Barbara Hammer
9. French experimental film: Chantal Ackerman
10 - 11. Guest lectures: TV shows and Hollywood through queer reading
Work placements
Aims
Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
Recommended optional programme components
Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
Laura Mulvey - Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema (EN)
Bordwell and Thompson: Film Art: An Introduction (EN)
Robin Wood: Hitchcok's Films Revisited (EN)
Alexander Dotty: Making Things Perfectly Queer (EN)
Recommended reading
Mast, Gerald - A SHort History of the Movies (EN)
Christine Ross: Fast Cars, Clean Bodies: Decolonisation and Reordering of French Culture. (EN)
Erens, Patricia: Issues in Feminist Film Criticism (EN)
Sherman Frazer E. Screen Enemies of the Americans (EN)
András Bálint Kovács: Screening Modernism (EN)
Classification of course in study plans
- Programme Bachelor's
branch ZST , 1 year of study, winter semester, elective
- Programme VUB Bachelor's
branch VU-D , 1 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-D , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-D , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-D , 4 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-D , 4 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-D , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-D , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-D , 1 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-D , 1 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-D , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-D , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-D , 4 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-IDT , 4 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-IDT , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-IDT , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-IDT , 1 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-IDT , 1 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-IDT , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-IDT , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-IDT , 4 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-IDT , 4 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-IDT , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-IDT , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-IDT , 1 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-IDT , 1 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-IDT , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-IDT , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-IDT , 4 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-IDT , 4 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-IDT , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-IDT , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-IDT , 1 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-IDT , 1 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-IDT , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-IDT , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-IDT , 4 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-IDT , 4 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-IDT , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-IDT , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-IDT , 1 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-VT , 1 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-VT , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-VT , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-VT , 4 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-VT , 4 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-VT , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-VT , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-VT , 1 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-VT , 1 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-VT , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-VT , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-VT , 4 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-VT , 4 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-VT , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-VT , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-VT , 1 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-VT , 1 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-VT , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-VT , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-VT , 4 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-VT , 4 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-VT , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-VT , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-VT , 1 year of study, winter semester, elective